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[Solved] Weird gray column on left

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Hello, I am not exactly a newbie to open office. I have 4.1 on windows 10 and 7. All of a sudden, on the win 7 machine, we see a gray column on the left with "123" across the top, and buttons that shrink, add or remove rows.

What is this called and how do I get rid of it?

Thanks

Mike
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Hi, and welcome to the forum.
mwpclark wrote:All of a sudden, on the win 7 machine, we see a gray column on the left with "123" across the top, and buttons that shrink, add or remove rows.
Random window appearing?

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No random window that I see, just + and - buttons that hide or expand rows. As far as I can tell.
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Have a look at the options under View | Toolbars; if it isn't one of those perhaps you could post a screenshot to help us identify the issue.

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I'm not familiar with this in OpenOffice. The description sounds like something in MS Excel.

What is this mysterious side-column in Excel?

Outline (group) data in a worksheet
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What is this mysterious side-column in Excel?
This link answered the question. It is data >> grouping/outlining in excel. The image on that link was exactly the same as in calc. Once I clicked on the data menu in calc, then grouping/outlining, there is a remove option. Got it, thanks!
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That appears almost identical to the image in the link MrProgrammer posted about Random window appearing?; and the same solution.
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